The classic, late-eighteenth-century horror novel described as lewd and libidinous at the time of its original publication in 1796 tells the story of a monk-turned-serial ...

Lewis claimed to have written The Monk in just ten weeks, when he was twenty-one years of age. He published the first edition anonymously, sensing that the controversial and ...

'The Monk: A Romance' is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis. The Monk has two main plotlines. The first concerns the corruption and downfall of the monk Ambrosio, and his ...

Left at a monastery as a baby, Ambrosio grew up to be a cruel and stern monk, renowned for his sermons and piety. When a nun named Agnes goes to Ambrosio for the sacrament of ...